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WSJ Deals just got bigger! We rebranded this account to WSJ Banking to focus on news and features from The Wall Street Journal's new Wall Street team, which continues to break the biggest M&A, IPO and activism scoops while leading coverage on banking, private equity, hedge funds, fintech and more.

The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street team includes: AnnaMaria Andriotis, Angel Au-Yeung, @JustinBaer, Dave Benoit, @DanaCimilluca, Laura Cooper, @CDriebusch, Ben Eisen, Rachel Louise Ensign, @MiriamGottfried, @GinaHeeb, Cara Lombardo, @Chris_Rexrode, @Rudegeair & @LaurenThomas

.Gina Heeb looks on the underwater bond portfolios of some community banks, which plowed their cash into low-yielding securities during 2021 only to see them lose value when rates rose in 2022/23. wsj.com/finance/bankin…

WSJ Exclusive: A top U.S. bank regulator plans to call for new rules that would require large and midsize lenders to show they can withstand the type of rapid deposit runs that took down three banks in early 2023. wsj.com/livecoverage/s…

Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentencing is Thursday, which means Rachel Humphreys and I are back with our podcast The Trial of Crypto’s Golden Boy (not that it feels like we ever left). Today we catch you up on what Bankman-Fried has been up to in jail. Listen here open.spotify.com/episode/6ZG7y2…

Our 24-hour read-a-thon for The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who will be wrongfully detained in Russia for a year come Friday, starts at noon ET today. We have a great lineup of readers. Watch here. Share videos of yourself reading with #EvanReadAThon. youtube.com/watch?v=gNweZE…

Friday will mark one year since The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained in Russia. Release him now.

One year stolen. Free Evan now #IStandWithEvan wsj.com/world/russia/e…

NEW: Regulators are set to seize Republic First and are near a deal to sell the troubled bank to another lender, the fourth high-profile bank failure since last spring. An announcement could come as soon as this pm. $FRBK With Gina Heeb & Justin Baer wsj.com/finance/bankin…

Vernon Hill was the man behind Republic First, the latest bank to fail. It was his third attempt to upend how consumers bank. He thought bank rules were stupid, scoffed at banks like JPMorgan and gave his dog a title and business cards. wsj.com/finance/bankin…

The 234-page report on the FDIC culture is out & includes many examples of brazen misconduct. A senior examiner was known for going to brothels with colleagues on work trips. A former exec was thrown out of a strip club for inappropriately touching dancers. Employees said they

NEW: Fortress and Canyon give $225m lifeline to struggling Texas bank, sign of growing troubles at many banks. W/Gina Heeb wsj.com/finance/bankin…

The Trump transition team has started to explore pathways to dramatically shrink, consolidate or even eliminate the top bank watchdogs in Washington—including asking some potential nominees if Trump could abolish the FDIC. ⁦Gina Heeb⁩ scoop: wsj.com/finance/regula…

Trump’s transition team has started to explore ways to dramatically shrink or even eliminate top bank watchdogs in Washington, including the FDIC. Big scoop from ⁦Gina Heeb⁩: wsj.com/finance/regula…

Trump officials have explored pathways to dramatically shrink, consolidate or even eliminate the top bank watchdogs, including the FDIC, per ⁦Gina Heeb⁩ wsj.com/finance/regula…

The Trump transition team has started to explore pathways to dramatically shrink, consolidate or even eliminate the top bank watchdogs in Washington wsj.com/finance/regula… via The Wall Street Journal Gina Heeb

New: The White House isn't interested in what the biggest banks have to say about Trump's tariffs. In fact, Trump hasn't been interested in hearing from them at all. At a gathering of bank CEOs, most said they haven't spoken to him since 2020. wsj.com/finance/bankin… via The Wall Street Journal

As tariffs roil markets, Wall Street’s elite bank CEOs aren’t in contact with the White House to the extent they have been during past disruptions — and when they are, they sense their opinions don’t carry weight. AnnaMaria Andriotis Gina Heeb alexander saeedy wsj.com/finance/bankin…